Two workers buried alive at Yermaras power plant site

January 17, 2015

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Raichur, Jan 17: Two labourers working on an underground pipe supplying water to the cooling tower of Yermaras Thermal Power Station (second unit)?near Raichur were buried alive after mud caved in on them on Friday.

The deceased have been identified as Mukhilesh, 25, and Matin, 53, both from West Bengal. Two more workers—Syed Hussain Nuziulla, 58, and Syed-ul-Hassan, 25, —were injured in the incident. They have been admitted to the Raichur Institute of Medical Sciences. A cameraman of a private television channel sustained a head injury when hundreds of workers threw stones at the ambulance which had arrived at the spot to shift the injured persons to the hospital.

Assistant Commissioner M?P?Maruthi, who visited the spot, said that according to the workers at the site a total of six men were engaged in erecting iron rods along the underground pipe which carries hot water to the cooling tower when the mud caved in. Two of them managed to escape while two were trapped. Earthmovers would be deployed to remove the debris to get a clear picture of the accident spot, the AC added.

G?C?Mahendra, Chief Engineer of Civil Department, YTPS, explained that the 2.7-metre diameter pipe was being laid for a length of 350 metre for carrying hot water to the cooling tower.

“Water used for producing thermal power gets heated. This is supplied to the cooling tower where huge fans cool the water. The water so cooled is utilised again. Iron rods are erected all along and welded to the pipe and the labourers were busy doing this job,” he said.

The work on the second unit was being executed by?BHEL and the job on the pipeline was entrusted to Prasad And Power Mac, a sub-contractor, the engineer said.

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March 3,2020

Panipat, Mar 3: A 22-year-old man was charred to death after he came in contact with a live electricity wire while posing for a TikTok video near the Matlaudha railway station here, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place on Monday evening when Vikas, a resident of Dharamgarh village, climbed a pole over which the wire was passing and posed for the video, police said.

His three friends were standing below when the accident took place.

Vikas came in contact with the wire carrying 25,000 volts current and was burnt, police said.

Police have sent the body for a post-mortem and started investigation into the matter.

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March 28,2020

Hyderabad, Mar 28: Seven labourers from Karnataka were killed and four injured when the van in which they were travelling was hit by a truck near Pedda Golconda on the outskirts of the city late on Friday night, police said.

The deceased included two children. Of the 31 workers in the van, five died on the spot and two while undergoing treatment at a hospital, Assistant Commissioner of Traffic Vishwa Prasad said.
Four others were hospitalised and the condition of one of them is critical, he said, adding the other workers in the van escaped with minor injuries.

The workers were on their way back to their home town Raichur in Karnataka as the road project they were working in at Suryapet here was stalled due to the lockdown, Prasad said.

He said initital investigations revealed that the mango laden truck, which was on its way to Gujarat, was overspeeding.

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January 14,2020

Farukkhabad, Jan 14: In a shocking incident, a new-born baby was mauled to death by a dog inside the operation theatre (OT) of a private hospital in Farukkhabad on Monday.

Family members of the baby boy said that they noticed the hospital staff shooing a dog away from inside the operation theatre and soon after, they were told the baby boy, born just two hours ago, was dead.

The family members said that they found the baby's body on the floor and it had deep gashes around the neck and other parts of the body.

District magistrate Manvendra Singh has ordered an FIR and the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Chandra Shekhar said the hospital has been sealed and an inquiry ordered into the incident.

Sources said that the hospital where the incident took place was unregistered and was being run adjacent to a government hospital.

According to the FIR lodged with Sadar Kotwali police, the infant's father Ravi Kumar said he had admitted his wife Kanchan in the hospital on Monday and she was taken for a C-section to the operation theatre.

After the delivery, Kanchan was shifted to the ward but the family was told that the baby would be shifted later.

An hour later, the family was informed that the baby had died.

The family members then saw the hospital staff trying to chase a dog out of the operation theatre.

The family members forced their way into the operation theatre and found the infant lying on the floor with several injuries on the neck.

The police said that the baby's body has been preserved for examination and post mortem.

The FIR has been registered against Dr Mohit Gupta, and some of the staff members who were present during the delivery.

The hospital owner, Vijay Patel, however, feigned complete ignorance about the incident and said that he had been told that the baby was born dead.

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